William Newton Mercer papers, 1829-1854.

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William Newton Mercer papers, 1829-1854.

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This collection consists of personal and business papers of Southern plantation owner and physician, William Newton Mercer. Included are handwritten correspondence, financial records, printed material, advertisements, a partial 1836 issue of Galignani's messenger (an English-language Parisian newspaper), and financial papers which document Dr. Mercer's European travels; correspondents include Henry W. Huntington, Ayers P. Merrill and Henry Clay.

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Huntington, Henry William, 1789-1854

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Merrill, A. P. (Ayres Phillips), 1793-1873

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A.P. Merrill (1787-1873) of Natchez, Miss., was a physician and the cashier of the Agricultural Bank, Natchez, Miss. He married Jane Moore, and the Merrill family home was Elmscourt. Jane Dunbar Ferguson, born near Natchez and a planter of Washington, Miss., was the wife of George Ferguson. Their children included: Dr. George Ferguson, Margaret, Ann, and Charlotte (died ca. 1886), and another son. Ann married prominent Natchez planter David Hunt. Their family lived at Wo...

Mercer, William Newton, 1792-1874

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William Newton Mercer, born in Cecil County, Maryland, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and during the War of 1812 as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army. He later was stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, as Army Post-Surgeon and established a private practice in Natchez after retiring from military service in 1821. He and his wife, Anna Eliza Farar of Adams County, Mississippi, had two daughters and lived at Laurel Hill Plantation in Adams County, w...